[Bacterioscopy of cerebrospinal fluid from patients with generalized forms of meningococcal infection]

The author analyzes the potentialities of bacterioscopic examinations of cerebrospinal fluid samples of patients with meningococcal infection and correlations of the liquor appearance characteristics and bacteriologic data. The findings are extremely important for practical laboratories, for they permit an adequate assessment of bacteriologic examinations and improve their quality. Six CSF groups may be distinguished, differing in their type. A relationship has been revealed between liquor appearance and bacteriologic and bacterioscopic findings, this relationship being prognostically and diagnostically significant.